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Reading Notes: Cupid and Psyche, Part B

Reading Notes The Jar of Beauty/The Sleep of the Dead

(Psyche Asleep by Anthony Van Dyck at Wikipedia)

Plot: In this part of the second half of Cupid and Psyche's tale, Psyche has completed her last task from Venus. She has journeyed into the underworld and come out with divine beauty in a jar. She is unable to contain her curiosity though and decides to open the jar since she did all that work to get it. Inside the jar is not actually divine beauty, but the Sleep of the Dead. Cupid healed from his wounds wants to see Psyche and finds her in the sleep of the dead. He saves her from her sleep and puts it back in the jar.

Characters: For the particular part of the story I focus on only Psyche is in it. Cupid joins in at the end to save Psyche.

Lesson: I feel that there is not really a lesson in this story which I do not like. I was disappointed that Psyche did not learn her lesson and again let her curiosity keep her from her happiness.

Ideas: I would definitely like to change the story so that Psyche is not tricked again in the same manner. I would rather she learn her lesson and not look in the jar.

Story Source: From The Golden Ass by Tony Kline
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